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The Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Partnership works to protect children on the Isle of Wight.

Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and our ambition is that everyone can recognise and respond to ensure that children, young people and their families are effectively safeguarded and supported.

Organisations that work with children and families have a shared responsibility to safeguard children in a local area and to work together in doing this. Three organisations have a statutory duty (something that they must do, rather than something they can choose to do) to have formal arrangement in place to work . These three organisations are the Isle of Wight Council, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board, and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police. These three organisations are called the 'Safeguarding Partners'.

This arrangement is called the Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Partnership (IOWSCP). 



          

Aims and Objectives of the Partnership

To ensure that children on the Isle of Wight are protected the IOWSCP will:

  • Work effectively together on shared priorities to improve outcomes for our children
  • Build working relationships to support continuous improvement, professional curiosity, constructive challenge
  • Be self-reflective, open and committed to learning and improvement
  • Embed learning from local and national safeguarding reviews and local scrutiny and assurance practices
  • Work and share information proactively to enable the early identification and response to new areas of safeguarding
  • Listen and respond to children and young people, and adult victims / survivors of child abuse to inform how services are delivered
  • Ensure services for children and families support parents and carers to provide the best possible care for their children
  • Facilitate collaborative working beyond organisational boundaries and agency constraints

Relevant Agencies

The three Safeguarding Partners have to set out which organisations are required to work with the Partnership. These organisations are referred to as Relevant Agencies:

  • Adult Mental Health services
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
  • Child and Family Court Advisory Service (CAFCAS)
  • Early Years Settings
  • Education establishments (primary, secondary, independent, post-16 years provisions, special schools, pupil referral units)
  • Faith Groups
  • Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service
  • Healthcare providers (including those represented through membership of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP))
  • HMP Isle of Wight
  • Housing Providers
  • Inclusion IOW
  • Isle of Wight Coroner's Office
  • Isle of Wight Primary Care providers
  • Isle of Wight Council, Adults Social Care
  • Isle of Wight Council, Childrens Social Care
  • Isle of Wight Council, Education and Inclusion
  • Isle of Wight Council, Housing
  • Isle of Wight Council, Public Health
  • Isle of Wight Council, Regulatory Services
  • Isle of Wight NHS Trust
  • Isle of Wight Youth Justice Service (YJS)
  • Language Schools
  • Love 146
  • National Probation Service (NPS)
  • NHS England/Improvement
  • Paragon
  • Perinatal Mental Health, Southern Health
  • Sporting Organisations (via the Hampshire and Isle of Wight County Sports Partnership (Energise Me). This includes national sporting bodies who have branches operating on the Isle of Wight such as the Football Agency (FA) for example)
  • Solent NHS Trust
  • The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC)
  • Voluntary Sector Organisations

For enquiries about the work of the Partnership:

Email: SCP@iow.gov.uk
Tel: 01983 814545
Address: County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD
Twitter: @IOWSCP

Please contact us using the email address above to join our newsletter and training mailing list

WE ARE UNABLE TO ASSIST WITH SAFEGUARDING CONCERNS OR PROVIDE CASE INFORMATION. PLEASE CONTACT CHILDREN'S SOCIAL CARE ON 0300 300 0901 FOR INFORMATION

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